After spending a few months sorting and setting up a sewing room I wanted to make something straight away. That week, the Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie was announced for international release. I enjoyed the album-themed Eras tour outfit videos that were going round all year and daydreaming up my own options. So now I had a sewing room, an event, a bandwagon to jump on and, of course, a deadline. The deadline was, naturally, the next weekend.
While I am a Reputation girl, every other concert I go to is a Wear Black concert (as is my taste in clothes generally). I wanted to take advantage of Eras as an opportunity to do something a bit different, so I took inspiration from some Midnights looks.
For patterns, I started with the lining pattern from my asymmetrical mini skirt and raised the waistline by tracing another skirt that fit well at the height I wanted.
First mock-up fit perfectly, and I think this newly modified pattern has inadvertently fixed a problem I was having with an upcoming project. I flatlined the chiffon, bound the waist, and did a single fold hem to minimise bulk.
For the top I used Knitwit 3900, one of my mum's patterns from the 80s. She used it for me when I was 12 so I knew how it was likely to turn out, and I knew to lengthen it significantly (which ended up being only just enough). I did try to adapt a pattern of my own but succeeded only in wasting one of the two days I had for this. The cowl top I ended up with isn't quite what I had in my head but did the job fine.
All in all – happy with the outfit, happy with the new sewing setup, happy to get back into sewing, (and happy to discover that the trick to enjoying Folklore is to turn it up loud).
